Four boaters are safe after being rescued by U.S. Coast Guard members near Freeport on Monday.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four people from an overturned vessell near Freeport on Monday. According to officials, Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a Mayday call just after 4:45 p.m. from a crew member stating their tug and barge was rolling over on its side with four people aboard.
FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, Google Android TV, and Vizio!An urgent marine information broadcast was issued by watchstanders and a Coast Guard Station Freeport 45-foot response boat-Medium crew, an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi, and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Houston responded. The helicopter crew located the life raft and directed the boat crew to its position.
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